45,000 Ottawa residents are currently Hydro One Customers. These residents pay upwards of 30% more for the same hydro service as their direct neighbours with Hydro Ottawa. Read more from Councillor George Darouze.

How can you help?

Sign the petition! Available at locations across the city (locations listed below)

Print the petition and get as many signatures as possible (there is no minimum age, but all signee’s must be Ottawa residents and provide printed name, address and signature)

Write a letter to Provincial officials such as Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli and Premiere Kathleen Wynne. You can send a copy to me and I will add it to my collection:

George Darouze Petition

8243 Victoria St, Metcalfe, Ontario, K0A 2P0

Note: The Legislative Assembly of Ontario only accepts ORIGINAL signatures, therefore there is no electronic version. Signatures must be made in person!

The Petition

PETITION TO: Legislative Assembly of Ontario

WHEREAS 45,000 Ottawa residents are customers of Hydro One, under the Government of Ontario, and pay 30% more in hydro rates than their direct neighbours under Hydro Ottawa.

We, the undersigned, residents of Ottawa, call upon the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to provide harmonized billing rates to Ottawa’s 45,000 Hydro One customers as Hydro Ottawa rates